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WSOS provides comprehensive family development, workforce development, education and child care assistance and other support services to families and individuals desiring to obtain basic needs stability, greater independence and self sufficiency.
Staff help families prepare for successful employment opportunities. We help individuals gain and retain employment with benefits, provide follow up services to ensure long term job retention and build community partnerships to support these efforts.
This is addressed through basic needs financial assistance programs, family and workforce development activities including case management, life skills, educational and vocational development and individual counseling.
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Home Based Option
What is Home-based?
Families enrolled in the Home-based option receive 32 home visits per year. The Home Visitor meets with the child and the parents for 90 minutes each week. The Home Visitor teaches the parent various skills during this time. The parents learn skills to help them teach their child, as they are their child's first and primary teacher. Children also participate in 16 Group Day sessions throughout the year. This is a chance for the children to develop their social skills, as well as the parents. Parents are encouraged to participate on Group Days.
A Typical Group Day at the Center
| Activites - Learning skills through active play |
| Outdoor Time |
Table Toys |
| Dramatic Play |
Health Activities |
| Art |
Self Help Skills |
| Music |
Circle Time |
| Math and Science |
Language and Literacy |
| Meals & Snacks - Breakfast or lunch is served. Children learn healthy habits through |
| Serving Foods |
Hand Washing |
| Table Settings |
Brushing Teeth |
| Dismissal - Recall of day's activity |
| Language skills |
| Services Relate to |
| Education |
Health |
| Parent Involvement |
Social Services |
The Benefits
The Head Start experience gives children:
- Speech, hearing & vision screenings
- General developmental screenings
- Educational experiences such as music, stories & dramatic play.
A Family Qualifies if...
- Parents are working and/or involved with a training program
- Parents meet income guidelines
- An application is completed for each child to use the service
- Kids complete a physical and dental exam and have up-to-date immunizations
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